{"id":25433,"date":"2017-08-18T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=25433"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:30:11","slug":"commemorating-yom-hazikaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/commemorating-yom-hazikaron\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Yom Hazikaron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Left to right, Canadian Defence Attach\u00e9 Col. Tony Lovett, Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons and Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans chief executive officer Yuval Lipkin light a memorial candle.<em> (photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/idfwo.org\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IDFWO<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons, who attended a memorial lighting at\u00a0Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans\u2019 (IDFWO\u2019s) office in Givat Shmuel to commemorate Yom Hazikaron, said, \u201cHaving had the opportunity to learn about the IDFWO and attend the bar and bat mitzvah in Jerusalem early after my arrival in Israel last year, I was, and remain, very impressed by the number of programs provided to support the widows and orphans of Israel\u2019s fallen soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The connection between Canada and IDFWO is at many levels. Every year, Canadian families open their homes to IDFWO orphans as they visit Toronto as part of the B\u2019nai Mitzvah North America trip. And, as part of Toronto\u2019s Bnei Akiva Schools\u2019 effort to experience the Holy Land from a variety of perspectives, IDFWO organized for them to meet with the Israel Air Force at Sde Dov airport, where the pilots spoke about IDF orphans and the price they paid to protect the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDFWO, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/idfwo.org\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">idfwo.org\/eng<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to right, Canadian Defence Attach\u00e9 Col. Tony Lovett, Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons and Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans chief executive officer Yuval Lipkin light a memorial candle. (photo from IDFWO) Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons, who attended a memorial lighting at\u00a0Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans\u2019 (IDFWO\u2019s) office in Givat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3157,6831,4330,6834,6833],"class_list":["post-25433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-idfwo","tag-israel","tag-orphans","tag-widows"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}